Hoping for responsibility from gun industry

12:44 PM,
Aug. 27, 2013

Written by

Hal Hogstrom, Asheville

A recent letter writer was of the persuasion that all that is needed to indict the president of crimes and misdemeanors is to mention him and an offense in the same sentence. One such was his charge that the president is flooding Mexico with firearms for the drug cartels.Years before Obama's election, federal licenses were issued to American gun dealers doing business along our southern border. In the Phoenix area alone, there were over 800 of them conveniently located for the Mexican drug gangs.Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, has done his utmost to defeat their despicable trade ...